St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church
Publish Date: 2025-03-27
Bulletin Contents
St Nectarios Weekly Bulletin
Service Calendar
Message from Father John
Saints and Feasts
Hymns of the Day
Gospel and Epistle Readings
About Us

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St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission Church

General Information

  • Phone:
  • (509) 547-3968
  • Fax:
  • none / Facebook Group: "Saint Nectarios - Pasco"
  • Street Address:

  • 627 West Bonneville Street

  • Pasco, WA 99301
  • Mailing Address:

  • 627 West Bonneville Street

  • Pasco, WA 99301

Contact Information

Mrs Tamara G Droppo
Board President

[email protected] | 5093668745

Services Schedule

    Online DIVINE LITURGY - 10:00am

or

    In-church TYPICA Reader Service - 10:00am

Past Bulletins


St Nectarios Weekly Bulletin

(Updated 3/25/2025)

03/26/2025

 

Upcoming In church Services:

 Friday, March 28. 7:00PM  Small Compline Service with Father Tervo/ Streamed from church to Facebook

 Saturday, March 29.  10:00AM  Divine Liturgy and Fellowship Time with Father Tervo followed by Fellowship time with Father Tervo.

 Saturday April 12⋅10:00 – 11:30am.  Palm Folding Activity for Children and Adults at St. Nectarios - Learn how to make crosses from palm leaves - usually a lot of fun. 

 For information, questions, and appointments - call Jim/Tammy Droppo 5O9 366-8745 or send email to [email protected].

   All are welcome at St. Nectarios!

 

 

 


Announcements

2025 Calendars and Holy water bottles are still available at the church. 

For information, questions, and appointments - call Jim/Tammy Droppo 5O9 366-8745 or send email to [email protected].

 


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Service Calendar

  • Saint Nectarios

    March 28 to April 20, 2025

    Friday, March 28

    7:00PM IN CHURCH: Small Compline Service with Father Tervo/ Streamed to Facebook Online

    Saturday, March 29

    10:00AM in church Divine Liturgy with Father Tervo

    5:00PM Vespers online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Sunday, March 30

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy - Zoom / Facebook Online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Monday, March 31

    7:00PM Special Service

    Friday, April 4

    7:00PM Online Akathist to St. Nectarios (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    7:00PM Small Compline Service - Zoom / Facebook Online

    Saturday, April 5

    5:00PM Vespers online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Sunday, April 6

    10:00AM Divine Liturgy - Zoom / Facebook Online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Monday, April 7

    7:00PM Great Compline Service

    Friday, April 11

    7:00PM Small Compline Service - Zoom / Facebook Online

    Saturday, April 12

    10:00AM Saturday Palm Folding Activity for Children and Adults

    5:00PM Vespers online (Pacific Standard Time-USA)

    Sunday, April 13

    Orthodox Palm Sunday

    Receive a Blessed Palm Cross at the Typica Service

    10:00AM Palm Sunday - Typica (in church) Reader Service + Fellowship

    7:00PM Bridegroom Service (Online)

    Monday, April 14

    7:00PM Bridegroom Service (Online)

    Tuesday, April 15

    7:00PM Bridegroom Service (Online)

    Wednesday, April 16

    7:00PM Holy Unction Service - Zoom / Facebook Online

    Thursday, April 17

    7:00PM The Twelve Passion Gospels - Zoom / Facebook Online

    Friday, April 18

    7:00PM Lamentations - Zoom / Facebook Online

    Saturday, April 19

    10:00PM VESPERAL LITURGY OF ST. BASIL Zoom / Facebook Online

    11:00PM Service before Resurrection - Zoom / Facebook Online

    Sunday, April 20

    12:00AM Resurrection Service - Zoom / Facebook Online

    11:00AM Orthodox Easter - Agape Vespers (In Church)

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Message from Father John

        Our Spiritual Father Advises Us

       (St. John Climacus)

On the fourth Sunday of Great Lent, we commemorate St.  John Climacus.  He wrote a spiritual book called the Ladder of Divine Ascent in order to teach the monks and us how to reach our heavenly goal.  Step by step, he guides and teaches us how to overcome and cleanse our passions and acquire the blessed virtues of God.  Starting with our blessed obedience to God and our spiritual father, we strive to overcome disobedience with obedience, with God’s Grace; pride with humility; laziness with work; gluttony with fasting; lying with truth; depression with eager work and prayer; greediness with almsgiving.  With God’s help and our personal effort, we will reach the positive virtues, Faith, Hope and love which will enable us to soar above our mundane preoccupations and commune daily with Christ our Victor.

Spiritual snares and obstacles lie along the way throughout our daily struggle.That’s why we need our spiritual father to guide us and protect us when we fall.  We never trust ourselves alone;  we depend upon God’s Grace and the Spiritual wisdom of our spiritual father to guide us.  To illustrate this point, St. John Climacus shows experienced monks falling down from the upper steps of his Ladder, because they ignored their spiritual father, trusted themselves, and fell into pride. 

Time and time again, we hear of prominent public figures who have fallen in disgrace because they became enslaved in one of their passions--immorality, greed, jealousy, despair, pride, etc.-- and they failed to achieve their goal in life.

 Let us fix our eyes on Christ, our true goal in life, and strive to live our lives, especially this Lenten Season,  according to His teaching in order to bear abundant fruit in Him.  Thus when He calls us, we will be able to welcome Him as our Savior and Deliverer, not as our dreadful Judge.

With love, Fr. John  P. Angelis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Saints and Feasts

March 30

Sunday of St. John Climacus

The memory of this Saint is celebrated on March 30, where his biography may be found. He is celebrated today because his book, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, is a sure guide to the ascetic life, written by a great man of prayer experienced in all forms of the monastic polity; it teaches the seeker after salvation how to lay a sound foundation for his struggles, how to detect and war against each of the passions, how to avoid the snares laid by the demons, and how to rise from the rudimental virtues to the heights of Godlike love and humility. It is held in such high esteem that it is universally read in its entirety in monasteries during the Great Fast.

March 30

John Climacus the Righteous, author of The Divine Ladder of Ascent

This Saint gave himself over to the ascetical life from his early youth. Experienced both in the solitary life of the hermit and in the communal life of cenobitic monasticism, he was appointed Abbot of the Monastery at Mount Sinai and wrote a book containing thirty homilies on virtue. Each homily deals with one virtue, and progressing from those that deal with holy and righteous activity (praxis) unto those that deal with divine vision (theoria), they raise a man up as though by means of steps unto the height of Heaven. For this cause his work is called "The Ladder of Divine Ascent." The day he was made Abbot of Sinai, the Prophet Moses was seen giving commands to those who served at table. Saint John reposed in 603, at eighty years of age. See also the Fourth Sunday of the Fast.

March 30

Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Caesar, & Epaphroditos, the Apostles of the 70

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Hymns of the Day

Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Grave Tone

By Your Cross, O Christ our God, You destroyed death. You opened paradise to the thief. You transformed the lament of the Myrrh-bearing women, and You commanded the Apostles to proclaim You are risen, granting the world Your great mercy.

Apolytikion for Sun. of St. John Climacus in the Plagal Fourth Tone

With the rivers of your tears, you have made the barren desert fertile. Through sighs of sorrow from deep within you, your labors have borne fruit a hundred-fold. By your miracles you have become a light, shining upon the world. O John, our Holy Father, pray to Christ our God, to save our souls.

Apolytikion for the Church in the First Tone

The Offspring of Selyvria and Guardian of Aegina, the true friend of virtue who appeared in the last years. Oh Nectarios we faithful honor you as a godly servant of Christ! For you bring forth healings of every kind for those who piously cry out: Glory to Christ who has glorified you, Glory to him who made you wondrous, glory to him who workest healings for all through you.

Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal Fourth Tone

To you, Theotokos, invincible Defender, having been delivered from peril, I, your city, dedicate the victory festival as a thank offering. In your irresistible might, keep me safe from all trials, that I may call out to you: "Hail, unwedded bride!"

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  • Resurrectional Apolytikion in Grave Tone © Narthex Press
  • Apolytikion for Sun. of St. John Climacus in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone © Narthex Press
  • Seasonal Kontakion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone © Narthex Press
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    Gospel and Epistle Readings

    Epistle Reading

    Prokeimenon. Grave Tone. Psalm 28.11,1.
    The Lord will give strength to his people.
    Verse: Bring to the Lord, O sons of God, bring to the Lord honor and glory.

    The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 6:13-20.

    BRETHREN, when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore to himself, saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you." And thus Abraham, having patiently endured, obtained the promise. Men indeed swear by a greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he interposed with an oath, so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God should prove false, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

    Gospel Reading

    Sunday of St. John Climacus
    The Reading is from Mark 9:17-31

    At that time, a man came to Jesus kneeling and saying: "Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a dumb spirit; and wherever it seizes him it dashes him down; and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able." And he answered them, "O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me." And they brought the boy to him; and when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. And Jesus asked his father, "How long has he had this?" And he said, "From childhood. And it has often cast him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us." And Jesus said to him, "If you can! All things are possible to him who believes." Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, "I believe; help my unbelief!" And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You dumb and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again." And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse; so that most of them said, "He is dead." But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?" And he said to them, "This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer and fasting." They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise."

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    About Us

    ST. NECTARIOS GREEK ORTHODOX MISSION CHURCH
    Diocese of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco.
    This Tri-Cities Christian Orthodox Community has a church located at 627 West Bonneville St., Pasco, WA 99301. All are invited to attend. A light lunch fellowship time normally follows the In-Church Liturgy and Typica Services.
    Prayers:  Please send us (or call us) with names of those you would like to be included in our prayers for healing.  Frist names may be entered in the St Nectarios - Pasco Group. 
    INFORMATION SOURCES
    For information on services and activities, you may:
    1) access our "Saint Nectarios - Pasco" Facebook Group:
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/334558973222227/
    2) access the church website:
     (copy/paste this url) https://www.stnectariostricities.org/ for Welcome to Our Parish Website | St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Mission (stnectariostricities.org) 
    3)  The online  (copy/paste this url) ../../../../../stnectariospasco/ for Saint Nectarios Bulletin  is the best source of up to date) information on church Services and activities. ( http://bulletinbuilder.org/stnectariospasco/  )
    NOTIFICATIONS 
    To receive the weekly Services Reminder  by email, please send an email request.
    For those not connected to the internet,  please call Jim (on 5O9 366 8745) to request either
        a) by a phone call on the 'week of the in-church Service'
           or
        b) by a weekly smart-phone Service reminder text message.
    CHURCH SERVICES
    Greek Orthodox Divine Liturgy.  Each month, we try to have at least one Divine Liturgy  (with a visiting Priest).  That Service is normally on a Saturday (or a Special Service/Feast weekday) and is scheduled when a Priest is available.  In addition to communion during the Service, private meetings with the Priest are available by appointment (for personal matters, planning future events, and Confession).
    Special Invitation - Saint Nectarios Church welcomes all: During Divine Liturgy, which is mostly in English, the Lord's Prayer is said by parishioners in their native languages.  Currently the prayer is normally said in English, Arabic, Russian, Spanish, and Greek.  If you wish to participate (and perhaps add a language), just let us know.
    On most weeks, we remotely celebrate Saturday Vespers  and Sunday Online Divine Liturgy  with Father John in the Seattle area.  During the remote Divine Liturgy, Communion is served to Father's attending family and friends - but is unavailable to those participating online.
    Online Greek Orthodox Vespers and Other Special Services are normally celebrated online with Father John in Seattle.  The link for joining Zoom to actively participate in on-line Services is
    https://goarch.zoom.us/j/98009355049?pwd=UmttUUN2aG4raUc4WS9Zelo1REYxdz09
    On the last Sunday of each month, there normally is a Typica Reader Service  with a Parish Fellowship Time.  This in-Church Service is held as an opportunity to bring the local community together - and hopefully eventually returning St. Nectarios to having a full time Priest.
    All are welcome to join in the celebration these Christian Orthodox Services.

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    Coptic Church Services

    Tri-Cities Coptic Church Services
    Saint Mary and Saint Abanoub Coptic Orthodox Church.    This Coptic Church is currently holding services at the St. Nectarios Church.  A Saturday or Sunday Holy Liturgy with a visiting Priest is normally held once per month either in the Tricities or in Spokane.  All are invited to attend. A fellowship time and Christian Study Class for older students normally follows the Services.  For more information, please contact Nader Samaan ([email protected]) or access the website: 
     (copy/paste this url) https://www.stmary-stabanoub-tricities.org/ for https://www.stmary-stabanoub-tricities.org/

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    Call Jim/Tammy Droppo, 5O9 366-8745.

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